Is there an oss Chromecast-like system that you can use to cast media from jellyfin?
Jellyfin: Free software media system
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Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system
#162Jellyfin is still so far behind Plex in media organization and just general reliability and polish.
Also, Plexamp is by far the best music player to exist right now.
Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
Add prowlarr and bazarr for the full win.
the full win would also include 2 instances of readarr, once for ebooks and one for audio books, whisparr for your 18+ needs, stash for your 18+ needs frontend, and I think audiobookshelf and kavita to play the audiobooks and ebooks respectively. If you're into comics you might also want to throw mylar3 in there and if you have multiple users (aka a spouse and/or offspring) you may want to throw ombi in there too.
Some additional recommendations:
- Setup two Radarr instances (normal and 4K) and two Sonarr instances (TV and anime)
- Follow the TRaSH guides to improve media quality
- Komga to read manga and comics
- Readarr Calibre integration to delegate parsing & metadata to Calibre
- Jellyseerr or Overseerr instead of Ombi
- Unpackerr to catch and handle compressed media
- autobrr if you’re looking to build ratio
Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system
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> I didn't like that you can't outright disable transcoding for content served via their app or in the browser. You can outright disable transcoding. That’s a checkbox in the server option. > both this and the native Android app do not handle Dolby vision or passthrough atmos content properly They do out of the box. Never had an issue with either transcoding disabled. If you have properly configured the source conten…
I ran into this with HDR. I have a fork/branch that strips that logic block out and it works great (tldr; video gets transcoded breaking HDR for any transcode reason i.e. audio/subtitle) https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/8743
Thanks I'll need to take a look next time I start tweaking my tv setup!
Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system
#165Jellyfin is still so far behind Plex in media organization and just general reliability and polish. Also, Plexamp is by far the best music player to exist right now.
But it doesn't trick you into an account or subscription
Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system
#166I hate that jellyfin does not sort films by categories like director or production company while plex does. Seems to be much more barebones than the alternatives
Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system
#167Jellyfin is still so far behind Plex in media organization and just general reliability and polish. Also, Plexamp is by far the best music player to exist right now.
But it doesn't trick you into an account or subscription
I found that Plex was pretty upfront about how membership works. I was happy to pay for a lifetime membership given the usage I’ve gotten out of it.
(though if I’m honest the lifetime membership concept feels like a bad idea on their side. Despite using their product regularly they now get no more money from me)
Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system
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I purchased it in 2014. It was $75 then. I also pay yearly for Infuse. It's worth it to me. Jellyfin is not (yet?) equivalent to Plex.
I would be surprised to see anyone arguing for equivalence, although I admit I have not paid close attention to most of the comments in this thread. But Jellyfin's not half bad for free, too, enough so that after seeing it mentioned on HN a year or two ago and spending five minutes to write up a half-assed compose file (and four hours screwing around with systemd's infuriating approach to sshfs automount) so I could…
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Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system
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When you’re setting up a new server, it shows you a bunch of default Libraries for their own media. Unselecting them then should remove them from your list. You can also edit your Libraries list later. Managing Libraries is a pretty import part of Plex UI (and Jellyfin for that matter) If you don’t know which library on the list to click on or drag around, maybe you’ll have a hard time in general.
> When you’re setting up a new server, it shows you a bunch of default Libraries for their own media. Unselecting them then should remove them from your list. It's been a while since I last tried setting it up, but I can't remember anything during the setup talking about external streaming libraries. I tried setting it up in the way I expected it to work based on my previous knowledge. > If you don’t know which libra…
“Libraries” is what Plex calls “collections” I think Emby/Jellyfin use the same terminology, but don’t quote me on that.
After you create a Plex instance, you still need to go and create a “Movies” library, a “TV Shows” library, maybe a “Music” library, an “Audiobooks” Library and so on. Those are the ones that show on the left panel in the Web UI, TV App etc. It’s how you manage your media in general
During initial setup, Plex will show you a list of “Default Libraries” that have names like “Discover”, “Web”, etc. You can unselect them. You can also remove them from your Library list later on.